📣 About The Speakers

Tim Speed

A software developer and for many years that’s pivoted primarily to focus machine learning and leading technology at Modest Tree. Most of my career has been in startups though I have a few years in big tech by working with LinkedIn on their learning platform; overall a large part of my experience has been focused on developing learning technology and supporting tools.

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Gordon Shotwell

Gordon has built data science web applications for many years, and currently works on the Shiny for Python team at posit.

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⏱️ Agenda For The Event

6:00pm – Doors Open

Come early to grab a beverage and socialize with others.

6:30 pm – Presentations

• An introduction to Modern Machine learning and it’s future
• How does Shiny really work? Shiny is a web application framework for R and Python, and has two special features. First, Shiny uses a reactive computation graph to only render the parts of the UI which need to change in response to a user’s actions, and second it infers that graph from your application. While you tell Shiny what to do, you don’t tell it when to do it. This talk explains Shiny’s one weird trick to always infer the correct computation graph.

7:30 pm – Socialize!

Spend some time socializing with the speakers and others in the community.